Cartridge.



No. 702,208. Patented :une l0, |902.

w. E. HAYNEB;

CARTRIDGE,

(Application filed Feb. 25, 1902.) (N0 Model.) i

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UNITED STATES.d PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM EVER'I-ON HAYNER,'OF SPRINGBORO, OHIO.

CARTRIDGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. l702,208, dated J' une 10, 1902.

Application filed February 25, 1902. Serial No. 95.521. (No model.)

' To ctZZ whom. t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EvERroN HAYNER, a citizenof the United States, resid-V ing at Springboro, in the county of Warren l and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cartridges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cartridges, having for its object the provision of a device of this character to enable smokeless powder in compressed form to be utilized in the construc` tion of cartridges in a cheap, durable, and proficient manner.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cartridge which will after being ired leave the barrel of the instrument used free of residue, thereby obviating all liability of the instrument being rendered useless by the 'barrel thereof becoming clogged.

The invention consists in the construction,

combination, and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter fully described, claimed, and

illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a cartridge constructedin accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a central section on the line 2 2 of Fig.`1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the firing-head. Fig. It is a detail perspective View of the cylinder of smokeless powder. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the projectile. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one of the stays or coupling-bars,

l designates a firing-head provided with a central opening 2 for the reception'of the fulminate and an annular flange 3, provided with upwardly-projecting prongsA 4, having their ends bent to engage the inner endsof a plurality of stays or coupling-bars 5, detachably securing them to the iiring-head, and which are embeddedin a charge of smokeless powder 6, and rigidly secured to their outer ends is a projectile 7. The charge 6 is in the form of a cylinder of compressed smokeless powder provided with a number of longitudinally-arranged perforations 8 and on the exterior thereof with longitudinally-arranged recesses 9, in which are embedded themstayns or coupling-bars@ providing the exterior of the cartridge with a smooth even surface, obviating any liability of the stays interfering with proper operation of the cartridge. The stays or coupling-bars 5 are each provided near one of their ends with transversely-arranged recesses LO, in which iit the bent ends of. the prongs 4, securing a sufficient hold upon the stays or coupling-bars to hold the component parts of the cartridge together under ordinary circumstances, but -not to prevent the stays or coupling-bars from being carried outof the gun-barrel with the projectile when the cartridge is discharged. The outer ends of the stays or coupling-bars are dovetailed, as is illustrated at 1,1, to lit in corresponding dovetailed recesses l2 on the exterior of and communicating with the under sideof the projectile.

'The projectile. may be provided with the above-mentioned dovetailed recesses to receive the stays or coupling-bars, or they may be embedded in the projectile when the same is being molded.

The projectile is of the usual form and has depending from the under side thereof a stem 13, provided with an annular depression 14., and is adapted to have the charge of powder molded around the' same, and through the means of the depression 1 4 the charge of powder and the projectile are secured together against casual disconnection.

It is readily perceived from the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, that. I provide a cartridge which will when discharged leave the gun-barrel free from residue, as the projectile will in leaving the gun-barrel withdraw the stays or coupling-bars with it, thereby leaving nothing within the gun-barrel to clog or injure the same, and, further, -that the cartridge is composed of but few parts, which are simple in construction and durable, enablingthe cartridge to be constructed in a cheap, durable, and proficient manner.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new isl. In a cartridge, the combination with a firing-head, of a cylinder of powder, a projectile, and stays or coupling-bars rigidly connected to the projectile and detachably secured to the firing-head.

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2. A cartridge comprising a firing-head hav and stays or coupling-bars rigidly secured to the projectile and detachably secured to the firing-head through the medium of the prongs.

3. A cartridge comprisinga firing-head having prongs, e. charge of powder, aJ projectile having doveteiled recesses, and stays or coupling-bars having their outer ends dovetailed Afind their inner ends recessed.

said projectile having a. reduced portion, and stays orcoupling-bars having their outer endsI dovetailed and provided near their inner ends l with recesses. i In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

VVILL AM EVERTON HAYNER.

I L Aczirtridge comprising aring-head havl /Vitnesses: y ing prongs, a cylinder of powder having lon- W. H. SIEGFRIED, gitudinel recesses, a projectile, a stem upon l J. W. BANTA. 

